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Re: st: Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of association between two binary variables ?


From   Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of association between two binary variables ?
Date   Mon, 21 May 2012 08:53:50 +0200

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Marcos Vinicius wrote:

> I will try to explain with more details. I was conducting a multicollinearity diagnostic analysis for a logistic regression using spearman correlation and VIF. Important detail:All the covariates are binary variables.Considering that when both(2) variables are dichotomous, a Pearson correlation coefficient is equivalent to the phi coefficient and to Spearman coefficient,would not be wrong write in the statistical analysis text(topic)   that multicollinearity  was conducted using spearman correlation or I have to change the words “spearman correlation” to “Phi coefficient”(in the text) to be 100% correct in terms of methodology description.?
> REgards,
> Marcos.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> Sent: Sun, 20 May 2012 16:24:41 -0500
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: st: Can Spearman's rho be used to measure of the degree of
>> association between two binary variables ?
>>
>> A classic article in political science that compares a wide variety of
>> measures for 2 by 2 tables is:
>>
>> Weisberg, Herbert F. 1974. “Models of Statistical Relationship.” The
>> American Political Science Review 68(4): 1638–1655.
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